Above 10 bottles per lot
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BONNAIRE
CRAMANT
The biggest individual producer in Cramant was originally called Bonnaire-Bouquemont, and for many years Bonnaire has provided us with some of the creamiest Chardonnay wines the world has ever seen. A few years ago Jean-Louis Bonnaire moved his office and reception down to the ultra-modern plant in the middle of the village's vine rows. He owns 13 hectares of Cramant's best locations, and the grapes from here are always used in the vintage wine or the Special Club. These wines, in particular, are among the area's real charmers, if they are given about ten years in the cellar. The malolactic fermentation is used and so the wines gain a buttery, mature character in their youth, but the acidity is always very high, lifting up the wines to an exotic wealth in their middle age and a splendid nutty fullness when mature. Bonnaire make textbook Cramant for the sensualist. Bonnaire only produces 200.000 bottles a year.
Bonnaire, Brut Cramant Blanc de Blancs
--Vintage 1959(1)
Maitre de Chai was prevented by French law from stamping the vintage on the label, but assures Zachys/Christie's it is 1959
--Vintage1973(3)
--Vintage1985(6)
Above 10 bottles per lot
Bonnaire
CRAMANT
The biggest individual producer in Cramant was originally called Bonnaire-Bouquemont, and for many years Bonnaire has provided us with some of the creamiest Chardonnay wines the world has ever seen. A few years ago Jean-Louis Bonnaire moved his office and reception down to the ultra-modern plant in the middle of the village's vine rows. He owns 13 hectares of Cramant's best locations, and the grapes from here are always used in the vintage wine or the Special Club. These wines, in particular, are among the area's real charmers, if they are given about ten years in the cellar. The malolactic fermentation is used and so the wines gain a buttery, mature character in their youth, but the acidity is always very high, lifting up the wines to an exotic wealth in their middle age and a splendid nutty fullness when mature. Bonnaire make textbook Cramant for the sensualist. Bonnaire only produces 200.000 bottles a year.
Bonnaire, Brut Cramant Blanc de Blancs
--Vintage 1959(1)
Maitre de Chai was prevented by French law from stamping the vintage on the label, but assures Zachys/Christie's it is 1959
--Vintage1973(3)
--Vintage1985(6)
Above 10 bottles per lot
Bonnaire